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Some light, liquid dnb
« on: January 10, 2016, 09:51:00 pm »


LMK :)

Oh and also, I don't normally do dnb so be nice :D
« Last Edit: January 10, 2016, 10:03:23 pm by Jamie »

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Re: Some light, liquid dnb
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2016, 10:10:20 pm »
Really digging it so far. I would turn down that snare a little. It just hits a little too high and loud. Also, great start but it really doesn't feel like it evolves too much. Good ideas though man!

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Re: Some light, liquid dnb
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2016, 10:13:11 pm »
Noted, when you say turn it down, do you mean just generally turn it down or remove some of the attack because I'm finding that I lose a lot of the impact when lowering the volume in general.

Also, yeah it's a bit bland at the moment with it being a WIP - but I'll keep plugging away - thanks fella.

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Re: Some light, liquid dnb
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2016, 10:20:31 pm »
I would suggest maybe just taking down some of that white noise cause it is piercing through.

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Re: Some light, liquid dnb
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2016, 10:22:00 pm »
Ah nice one, I'll give it a go then - cheers again :)

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Re: Some light, liquid dnb
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2016, 08:34:00 am »
Heya,

So, as a big Liquid fan, I would recommend a more clicky snare, with a smaller release and less wet. The kick is a bit too powefull, try bringing down the level in the mix to make it blend more into the track.

I liked the main ambiance/atmosphere. it's very relaxing.

Keep it up ;)

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Re: Some light, liquid dnb
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2016, 12:55:16 pm »
Hey man, the atmosphere in this track sounds great.

Advice:

1. Drums in DnB are so frequent they tend to clutter up the mix if they have long transients. I would suggest a tighter/shorter kick & snare. Give it a bit of compression. A nice light amount of sidechain and it won't cut through so harshly.

2. One technique I've learned over the past while making Liquid DnB is sweeps and crashes really add to a track. They don't need to be large impacts or crashes, just something that kind of wraps around the peaks and valleys of your track. It will hit that stereo field nicely and almost feel like it's wrapping around your head. If you're using Ableton, just use the native Utility effect and give it a bit of stereo spread. You can add some nice lush reverb onto it to give it some fluidity.

3. I'd give your hi hats a bit of a re work. They're there but I had to critically listen to really figure out exactly where they were. Trying using a more fine high hat sample, not as much of a sample kind of sounding "white noisy" if that makes sense lol.

Overall the track sounds good, I think the biggest thing is the Drum work. And by all means I am no pro, so if someone has a seperate opinion please do correct me! I'm a up and coming producer myself and am willing to take any knowledge I can get!

Cheers!


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Re: Some light, liquid dnb
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2016, 07:02:58 pm »
Some proper feedback here guys, thank you very much - I'll continue to plug away at it over the week, see if I can get it into a position where you're all happy :)